Volume 32, Number 29, July 22, 2005

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Time for Germany To Assert Its Sovereignty, or Perish  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Helga Zepp-LaRouche appeals to voters, that Germany must withdraw from the Maastricht Treaty, dump the euro, and go back to the deutschemark as its national currency, in order to realize a well-defined growth policy through a state investment program for productive full employment.

Oskar Lafontaine: An Aging Bankers’ Boy?

by Elke Fimmen

Former Social Democrat Lafontaine is slated to play a critical role in preventing the emergence of a political force in Germany which could implement a state investment program, the only way to reverse the collapse of the German economy. His new book, Politics for All: A Polemical Treatise for a Just Society, gives his plans away.

Left Party To Counter Zepp-LaRouche Campaign  

by Rainer Apel

A rag-tag leftist coalition has been pasted together to sabotage Germany’s survival as a sovereign industrial nation.

International

Underlying Brazil’s Corruption Scandal: A Drive for a Coup?

by Gretchen Small

A war against the Brazilian state has begun, behind the sordid charges and counter-charges which occupy the public’s attention. Foreign financial interests are moving in for the kill, to finish off the coup they began in November 2004.

Foreign Hands Behind Philippine Collapse

by Michael Billington

Both the Arroyo Administration and a faction of “rebel” Cabinet members are being “played” by financial and political operatives in Washington and New York.

Philippines Was Robbed of Development

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Central Asia Battle Lines Being Drawn  

by Ramtanu Maitra

The U.S. Removes the Nuclear Brakes

by Reuven Pedatzur

A guest commentary by Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, a Tel Aviv journalist and lecturer.

Investigation

LaRouche Lays Out Parameters for Probe of London Bombings

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Put Britain on List of Terrorist Sponsors  

From EIR’s archives: a memorandum, dated Jan. 11, 2000, prepared for delivery to then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

LaRouche: The Nature of The Required Investigation

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A memorandum on “The Dirt Bike Terror Incident.”

A Century of British State-Sponsored Terror

by MJS

As told by novelist Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent.

Economics

The Loudoun County Real Estate Bubble: A Case Study in How the World Went to Hell

by L. Wolfe

The creation of this speculative bubble in Northern Virginia was deliberate, part of an effort to keep a dying and dysfunctional monetary system afloat. In the process, in this former backwater of the nation’s capital, it sucked thousands of people into a speculative vortex, from which they will not emerge whole.

U.S. Economy Borrows $4.45 To Buy a Dollar

by John Hoefle

National

White House Iraq ‘Plumbers Unit’ Behind Plame Leak  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The focus of attention is on activities of a little-known but high-powered Administration unit called the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).

Rumsfeld’s Military Base Shutdowns Are Becoming a Constitutional Issue

by Carl Osgood

Vets Need ‘Time Out’ from CARES Cutbacks

by Patricia Salisbury

GOP Can’t Escape Bush’s Social Security Quagmire

by Paul Gallagher

Ohio Funding Scandal Points to Cheney-Rove

by Richard Freeman

Berlin Seminar

View From Berlin: The Coming Crash of the World System

These presentations by distinguished Asian analysts, and responses from Lyndon LaRouche, were given to EIR’s Berlin seminar on June 28.

Political Economy of Renminbi Revaluation  

by Dr. Ding Dou

Dr. Ding Dou is from School of International Studies at Beijing University.

An Indian Perspective on Central Asia  

by Maj. Gen. Afsir Karim (ret.)

By the editor of the Indian strategic magazine Aakrosh.

Economic Foundations of a Peace of Westphalia  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

China’s Role in the World Economy  

by Dr. Song Hong

Dr. Song Hong is from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of World Economics and Politics.

It’s Time To Dump ‘Brand X’ Economics

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Discussion and summary remarks by Lyndon H. LaRouche.

Editorial

End Globalization, the New Feudalism!

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